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Overview

Clean Harbors in Houston, TX is seeking a Container Mechanic responsible for repairing and maintaining containers through various metalworking techniques. The role emphasizes health and safety, requiring compliance with safe work practices and logging of repair activities.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure that Health and Safety is the number one priority by complying with all safe work practices, policies, and processes.
  • Perform compliance and safety inspections; correct equipment deficiencies and perform preventative maintenance on company-owned equipment.
  • Perform welding, cutting, grinding, mechanical repair, and all other metalworking techniques consistent with the container repair trade.
  • Maintain established shop housekeeping and building maintenance obligations as well as welding systems, general repair equipment, and shop tools.
  • Perform surface preparation of equipment prior to painting; apply paint or similar coatings using HVLP, airless, or manual tooling and processes.
  • Perform fabrication, cutting, and welding on roll-off containers.
  • Produce quality product while focusing on given standards.
  • Log all necessary entries of time and materials into electronic repair order system.
  • Ensure the company truck is kept clean, tidy, and free of hazards at all times.
  • Perform other welding duties and tasks as assigned by management.

Requirements

  • Welding (MIG & Stick) and mechanical experience in a fabrication/repair shop environment.
  • Experience performing flat welding with steel preferred.
  • Successful completion of Structural Welding test.
  • Welding Certification is considered an asset.
  • Ability and willingness to wear a respirator; must be clean shaven.
  • Valid driver's license and clean 3-year driving record are required.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • 401k
  • PTO

Benefits

Health Insurance
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Houston, TX currently run a median of $27/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$35/hr across 88 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Houston, TX

We're tracking 361 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 196 different employers. 123 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,256 other active welding openings from 562 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Houston, or widen the search to Texas.

Clean Harbors currently has 4 other openings live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Austin Industries (34), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (27), and Zachry Group (23). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Pasadena at $36/hr, Dallas at $35/hr, and Midlothian at $35/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Container Maintenance Mechanic figures were last recalculated when this page was built.